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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On
November 12, 2020, DXC Technology Company (the “Company”) announced that it has appointed Kenneth P. Sharp to serve as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective November 30, 2020. Mr. Sharp will succeed Neil A. Manna, who has been serving as Acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company while the Company searched for a permanent Chief Financial Officer, and who will continue to serve as Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer of the Company, effective
November 30, 2020.
Mr. Sharp most recently served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Defense Systems Sector for Northrop Grumman (“NOC”) from June 2018 to November 2020. From January 2016 to June 2018, Mr. Sharp served as Senior Vice President, Finance of Orbital ATK (subsequently purchased by NOC). Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Leidos, Inc. (formerly SAIC, Inc.) (“Leidos”), from June 2013 to January 2016, and as Senior Vice President, Finance of Leidos from March 2013 to June 2013.
Before joining Leidos, Mr. Sharp spent eleven years at Computer Sciences Corporation (“CSC”), the predecessor company to DXC. While at CSC from 2001 – 2012, Sharp was vice president and CFO for its Outsourcing
business and held other financial management roles. Mr. Sharp served as Chief Financial Officer, Global Linguist Solutions in 2007, as Senior Manager at Ernst & Young from 1993 to 2001, and as a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps Reserves from 1988 to 1996.
Mr. Sharp holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BS in accounting from the University of Maryland. He is a certified public accountant (inactive status).
In connection with Mr. Sharp’s appointment as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Sharp will receive compensation that includes an annual base salary of $700,000 (subject to adjustment), annual bonus eligibility with a target amount of 110% of base salary and a cash sign-on bonus of $750,000. Mr. Sharp will also receive
equity awards each fiscal year with an aggregate value equal to 400% of base salary with termination-related vesting provisions consistent with those in the Company’s current award agreements, and an inducement equity grant in the form of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) with a grant-date value equal to $750,000, vesting subject to Mr. Sharp’s continued employment in three equal installments on the first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date, and with terms and conditions generally consistent with those applicable to fiscal 2021 RSUs granted to other senior executive officers of the Company. Mr. Sharp will generally be eligible to participate in employee benefit plans and programs maintained by the
Company, including the Company’s Severance Plan for Senior Management and Key Employees.
This information provided under this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, is “furnished” and not “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. It may only be incorporated by reference in another filing under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act of 1933 if and to the extent such subsequent filing specifically references the information incorporated by reference herein.
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to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.